(On Behalf of the Department of Motor Vehicles
and Public Safety)
February 3, 1997
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Referred to Committee on Transportation
SUMMARY--Increases distance that vehicle may be required to be driven for weighing vehicle. (BDR 43-587)
FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.
Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.
EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.
AN ACT relating to traffic laws; increasing the distance that a vehicle may be required to be driven for weighing the vehicle; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
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Section 1 NRS 484.755 is hereby amended to read as follows:
484.755 1. [Authority] The authority for the enforcement of the provisions of NRS 484.744 to 484.757, inclusive, is vested in the Nevada highway patrol.
2. Any officer of the Nevada highway patrol having reason to believe that the weight of a vehicle and load is unlawful may require the driver to stop and submit to a weighing of the vehicle either by means of portable or stationary scales and may require that the vehicle be driven to the nearest public scales, if they are within [5] 15 miles.
3. Whenever an officer upon weighing a vehicle and load as provided in subsection 2 determines that the weight is unlawful, he may require the driver to stop in a suitable place and remove such portion of the load as may be necessary to reduce the gross weight of the vehicle to those limits permitted [under] pursuant to NRS 484.744 to 484.757, inclusive. All materials so unloaded must be cared for by the carrier of the material and at his expense. The officer may allow the driver of the inspected vehicle to continue on his journey if any overload does not exceed by more than 5 percent the limitations prescribed by NRS 484.744 to 484.757, inclusive, but the penalties provided in NRS 484.757 must be imposed for the overload violation.
4. Any driver of a vehicle who fails or refuses to stop and submit the vehicle and load to a weighing [,] or who fails or refuses when directed by an officer of the Nevada highway patrol upon a weighing of the vehicle to stop and otherwise comply with the provisions of NRS 484.744 to 484.757, inclusive, is guilty of a misdemeanor.